BRIEFLY : EL CARISO PARK TOPIC OF MEETING TONIGHT.Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D. Edelman. is urging interested residents to attend a special community meeting tonight on future improvements at El Cariso Park in Sylmar. The meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. in the park's community room, 13100 Hubbard St. Yaroslavsky isn't scheduled to attend but county parks officials will be there. The county has $1.7 million available to upgrade El Cariso Park under the terms of a measure voters approved in 1992. County parks officials want to know the public's priorities as they refine proposals for the Board of Supervisors. - Daily News Mural project gets OK from city panel The city Recreation and Parks Commission gave approval Tuesday to a series of murals to be drawn by area students at the Humphrey Memorial Park in Pacoima. The commission approved four murals at different locations around the park to be coordinated by the Communities in Schools, New Directions for Youth and Pacoima Beautiful. The murals will include a nature scene, a train and a young girl holding the hand of an adult. - Daily News Services center to be renovated The city's Construction Services Center in Van Nuys will be renovated and doubled in size under a project approved Tuesday by the Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. . The council allocated $470,000 to develop the center into a one-stop permit location for businesses, property owners and developers. The center, at 14425 Erwin St. in Van Nuys, is designed to provide one location for obtaining business and building permits. - Daily News Hit-and-run driver kills pedestrian PANORAMA CITY - A motorist hit and killed a pedestrian in a crosswalk early Tuesday morning and then fled, police said. The man, who police were still trying to identify Tuesday evening, was crossing westbound on Cantara Street at 6:50 a.m. when a male driver headed eastbound on Cantara made a left turn to go north on Coldwater Canyon Avenue, hitting the pedestrian in the crosswalk, said LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Officer Jim Thornton. - Daily News Discovery requests filed in tobacco suit As part of a lawsuit by the city of Los Angeles
n. Cigarette, cigar, or pipe smoke that is inhaled unintentionally by nonsmokers and may be injurious to their health if inhaled regularly over a long period. Also called passive smoke. and how long they have known it, officials said Tuesday. The lawsuit alleges that tobacco companies violate state laws, such as voter-approved Proposition 65, that require them to warn the public of health hazards. ``We are focusing on our contention that, for years, the tobacco companies concealed the health risks of secondhand smoke from the public,'' Hahn said. - Daily News Prosecutors told of officer's perjury perjury (pûr`jərē), in criminal law, the act of willfully and knowingly stating a falsehood under oath or under affirmation in judicial or administrative proceedings. LAPD Chief Bernard C. Parks Bernard Parks (born December 7, 1943 in Beaumont, Texas) is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 8th District in South Los Angeles and former Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. Parks attended Los Angeles City College, received his B.S. said Tuesday he is notifying prosecutors that one of his police officers has been found guilty of perjury so they can evaluate his role in 400 past cases. Edward Ruiz was found guilty by an LAPD Board of Rights of lying under oath Noun 1. lying under oath - criminal offense of making false statements under oath bearing false witness, perjury infraction, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, violation, infringement - a crime less serious than a felony and filing a false police report. Although the board only gave him a 22-day suspension, Parks said he has assigned the officer indefinitely to a desk job where he cannot become involve in police investigations. - Daily News |
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